Murder on Main Street by Shannon Kaper

Author:Shannon Kaper [Kaper, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781093266726
Published: 2019-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Chapter 15

“Do you know what happened?”

“Okay.”

“Absolutely, that is no problem at all.”

“Okay, I’ll talk to you later,” I said into the phone before I hung up.

“Well, it seems as if Paula took a bit of a fall last night and twisted her ankle; she’ll be off it for a few days,” I sighed, as I related the information from the phone call I received from Paula’s daughter.

“What was she doing?” Julia asked.

I knew what she was doing and now I was going to either lie to Julia, or fill her in. The fewer people that knew what Paula and I were doing, the better. I would hate for Julia to ever feel uncomfortable because she knew that I did break the law when I went into the old man’s house. I could kick myself now for going along with Paula’s scheme, even though it did give me some ammunition against Toby. But I couldn’t tell anyone without ratting myself out so, ultimately, what good did it do? Nothing; now Paula is hurt and my suspicions about Toby have increased. I’m not finding myself in a good situation, just now.

“Okay, look, you can’t say anything to anyone, or even let on that you know,” I warned her. “Paula and I went on a secret mission last night; she slipped while we were out but made it home. She told her daughter that she slipped when she got out of the car after we had dinner, which is just a slight stretching of the truth.”

“What do you mean a secret mission?”

I looked around to make sure that anyone in the bakery was far enough away that they wouldn’t be able to hear what I was about to tell Julia. We moved closer to the back counter and worked on shaping rolls while I told her the story from the previous night.

“You did what?” she gasped.

“I know, I know - but it was worth it. There were books in there about plants, poison, and murder. There was also a pile of print outs from the Internet about murderers, serial killers, and other things about how people are killed,” I whispered to her.

“Oh, my gosh, so you think the son is the killer?”

“I would just about put money on it.”

“What now?”

Hearing a deep male voice behind us made us both jump. “Hello, ladies.”

We both sucked in our breath and turned around. I’m sure we looked like we’d been caught doing something we weren’t supposed to be doing.

“Oh, hello Toby; I didn’t hear the bell when you came in,” I said, trying to sound normal.

“I could tell,” he laughed. “What are you two conspiring about?”

“What? Conspiring?” I stuttered nervously.

Julia turned back around and continued shaping the rolls leaving me to deal with a killer.

“Back there in the corner, whispering and so into your conversation that you didn’t hear me come in, sure looks suspicious,” he winked.

“Are you accusing me of something again?”

“Should I be?”

“No, I haven’t done anything. I thought we were past all that,” I sighed.

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